Geetha Pious is the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative, David Shearer’s head of field office in Juba and coordinates all peacekeeping components and civil affairs in the capital, and the former central Equatoria state of South Sudan. She also discusses the peace process, the UN mandate due to be renewed by March 15, 2019, tribal versus national identity and accountability for human rights violations, war crimes and conflict related sexual and gender based violence in South Sudan.
In a remarkably heartless display of extreme xenophobia, Africans in China –
specifically Guangzhou – have been evicted from their hotels, apartments and
barred from entering restaurants. Many of them have found
In Anthony Bourdain’s Lagos-related program, there was a discussion with a local TV anchor – someone who also anchors the Presidential debates there. She made a stunning comment that
Henry VIII’s love for Catholicism during his early years was undeniable but when
in May of 1533, his love life collided with the religious dictum of his time
that
Disparagement humor is a built and financed weapon. It boxes a people with a label, hardens the label into stigma, and makes the sacred laughable until a civilization forgets why it was worth saving. Rome never learned this lesson. However, India needs to. Ask - Who is paying for the laughter?
India's exam crisis is real. NEET leaked. JEE was hacked. CBSE's answer sheets were blurred. But the movement built on student anger arrived too organized, scaled too fast, and demands regime change — not reform. A sixty-year-old doctrine explains exactly what is happening.
The post-Cold War order is fading, but the next world order has yet to emerge. As America, China, Europe, and Russia reposition for an uncertain future, old assumptions are collapsing. This is the story of borrowed power, strategic decline, rising rivals, and a world caught between eras.
For eighty years, the cross and the agency have traveled together. Missionaries mapped territories, pacified populations, and laundered political operations as charity. When India asks where was the money used, Washington sends a Secretary of State to make the question stop.
